Accession number
MS H.1
Object title
Book of hours (MS H.1).
Created
Rouen, France, ca. 1500.
Binding
Early 16th-century blond leather with flap; blind-stamped with 2 panels, one depicting the instruments of the Passion and St. George fighting the dragon, the other a large Tree of Jesse.
Credit line
Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977.
Description
149 leaves (1 column, 26 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 162 x 117 mm
Provenance
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1962.
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rouen (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead, calendar, litany); written and illuminated in Rouen, France, ca. 1500.
Decoration: 14 full-page miniatures, 6 small miniatures, 1 historiated initial; French Gothic style.
Artist: Robert Boyvin? or a follower of Master of the Rouen Echevinage?
Decoration: 14 full-page miniatures, 6 small miniatures, 1 historiated initial; French Gothic style.
Artist: Robert Boyvin? or a follower of Master of the Rouen Echevinage?
Contents
fols. 1r-6v: Calendar -- fols. 7r-56r: Intercalated Hours of the Virgin, Hours of the Passion, Short Hours of the Cross and Short Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fol. 56v: Blank -- fols. 57r-66r: Penitential psalms and Litany -- fols. 66v-85v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 86r-90r: Suffrages -- fol. 90v: Blank -- fols. 91r-113v: Gospel Sequences -- fols. 113v-114v: Seven Verses of Bernard of Clairvaux -- fols. 115r-137r: Seven Verses of Gregory the Great -- fols. 137v-144r: Masses of Holy Spirit, Trinity, Virgin and the Dead -- fols. 144r-145v: Genealology of Christ according to Evangelist Matthew -- fol. 146r: Prayer to archangel Raphael -- fols. 146v-149v: Hymn to the Virgin, Stabat Mater.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and French
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